Evie Stuff

Apologies to those of you who know parts of this from Facebook or texts or emails.

On Friday morning, Evie was taken by ambulance to Lancaster General Hospital with intense abdominal pain.

She was diagnosed with what's now being called a ruptured colon.

She was admitted to the hospital and seemed to be progressing well with IV antibiotics.

She doesn't like even me to be around her when she's in pain, so we agreed that I'd not visit her on Saturday but see her on Sunday.

Saturday morning she called to say that she was doing better and that I should come to the hospital to visit because the hospital was going to go under quarantine at 3:00 that afternoon.

I was stunned when I arrived to hear that she was being prepared for surgery because her white cell count was high and her temperature was rising.

She had the surgery late in the afternoon.

Part of her intestine was removed. She has a (hopefully temporary) colostomy. The surgeon said that there's a slight chance that she may require more surgery.

She's texted a few times this morning. She still has a fever that's higher than makes me comfortable and says she has pain when she moves. Based on how unreadable some of her texts are, I suspect that she's very heavily medicated.

She tried to describe all of the tubes coming out of her body, but that text was impossible to make sense of.

Aggravatingly, the hospital is, indeed, under quarantine due to the challenges of the spread of the coronavirus and I won't be able to see her, unless this deteriorates to an end of life situation.

It's hard to say where this is headed.

She could be running up and down the halls in a few days. Or, not.

Please keep us in your prayers.